When is an Illinois personal-jurisdiction objection due after an initial judgment-relief motion?

Identify the actual initial Section 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motion and preserve its filing record.

Obtain the court’s order disposing of that motion and establish the order date.

Review prior pleadings, answer-extension motions and any combined jurisdiction objection for waiver or preserved objections.

1. Identify the actual initial Section 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motion and preserve its filing record.
2. Exclude the qualifying disposal-order day and count 60 calendar days. Do not count from the original default, the initial motion’s filing date or an answer-extension order that is not the stated disposal event.
3. Check the final weekend, statutory holiday and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. File the subsection (a) objection identifying the jurisdiction, process or service issue. Supply the required affidavit for facts not apparent from the filed papers and preserve the court’s ruling.

Section 1.11 excludes a final Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday and consecutive excluded days. Section 17(a) of the Promissory Note and Bank Holiday Act includes Pulaski Day, Good Friday and the general election for members of the House of Representatives. Check proclamations, the proper court’s actual calendar and clerk access separately. The bundled Illinois calendar covers 2026 and 2027.

Fictitious example

Use the (a-6) exception only after identifying the initial motion and actual disposal order. An answer-extension motion alone does not establish this trigger. Review earlier pleading and waiver separately. Fictitious statutory event, independently established under the precise scope stated in this guide. Use the (a-6) exception only after identifying the initial motion and actual disposal order. An answer-extension motion alone does not establish this trigger. Review earlier pleading and waiver separately.

Fictitious qualifying initial motion and disposal order. Earlier waiver and affidavit sufficiency are independently established, not decided by this sixty-day calculation.

Ordinary objection practice has an earlier ordering requirement

Subsection (a) places the objection before another pleading or motion other than the stated extension motion. The qualified sixty-day exception does not excuse every earlier merits pleading.

Subsection (a-6) specifies the saved initial motions

The provision excepts a motion for an extension to answer or plead and the stated initial Sections 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motions from prospective waiver. Its sixty-day sentence refers to an order disposing of the latter statutory motions.

A combined statutory motion can preserve the objection

Subsection (a-6) permits combining the subsection (a) objection with the specified judgment-relief motion without waiving the personal-jurisdiction objection.

Supporting facts and later conduct remain separate

Subsection (a) requires an affidavit when supporting facts are not apparent from the papers. Subsection (c) addresses waiver of error by further participation after an adverse ruling, with its stated amenability exception.

• This calculation does not determine whether relief is available or whether the facts satisfy the statute.
• A current statutory edition does not establish the law for every historical claim. Preserve the applicable edition and actual orders.

• Identify the actual initial Section 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motion and preserve its filing record.
• Obtain the court’s order disposing of that motion and establish the order date.
• Review prior pleadings, answer-extension motions and any combined jurisdiction objection for waiver or preserved objections.
• Subsection (a) places the objection before another pleading or motion other than the stated extension motion. The qualified sixty-day exception does not excuse every earlier merits pleading.
• The provision excepts a motion for an extension to answer or plead and the stated initial Sections 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motions from prospective waiver. Its sixty-day sentence refers to an order disposing of the latter statutory motions.
• Subsection (a-6) permits combining the subsection (a) objection with the specified judgment-relief motion without waiving the personal-jurisdiction objection.
• Subsection (a) requires an affidavit when supporting facts are not apparent from the papers. Subsection (c) addresses waiver of error by further participation after an adverse ruling, with its stated amenability exception.
• File the subsection (a) objection identifying the jurisdiction, process or service issue. Supply the required affidavit for facts not apparent from the filed papers and preserve the court’s ruling. File with the proper clerk in the required format. Rule 9 ordinarily requires civil electronic filing, subject to its exceptions and exemptions. Rule 9(f) ordinarily requires submission before midnight in the court time zone unless a statute, rule or actual order specifies a different time. A submission on a closed clerk day ordinarily receives the next open-day stamp. Preserve the actual electronic file mark, receipt and any filing-relief order. Filing and service are distinct acts.